With increase of maternal age, the incidence of haematological malignancies during pregnancy is rising and posing diagnostic and treatment challenges. Lymphoma is the fourth most common malignancy diagnosed in pregnancy; Hodgkin lymphoma is more frequent in pregnant women than non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). The proportion of highly aggressive lymphomas in pregnant women is significantly higher tha...

OBJECTIVE We examined intraplacental color Doppler flow patterns and spectral Doppler flow velocity waveforms of villous arteries in pregnancies with intrauterine growth retardation. STUDY DESIGN A total of 192 uncomplicated pregnancies and 29 pregnancies with intrauterine growth retardation between 26 and 41 weeks' gestation were examined in this cross-sectional study. Intraplacental color D...

Aim: To investigate imaging findings and postnatal clinical features of fetal intracranial hemorrhage.
 Materials Method: Fetal hemorrhage cases detected in our institution between 2018 2020 by ultrasonography magnetic resonance were included. Maternal characteristics, findings, outcomes noted.
 Results: A total 10 with a gestational age 21-35 weeks at the time diagnosis detected. Eig...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical impact of fetal echocardiography before 16 weeks' gestation on the management of pregnancies with fetuses at risk of congenital heart disease. DESIGN AND SETTING Observational study in a fetal medicine unit. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS 222 consecutive women with high risk pregnancies (230 fetuses) underwent transabdominal fetal echocardiography at a median ge...

Objective: To evaluate the clinical impact of fetal echocardiography before 16 weeks’ gestation on the management of pregnancies with fetuses at risk of congenital heart disease. Design and setting: Observational study in a fetal medicine unit. Participants and methods: 222 consecutive women with high risk pregnancies (230 fetuses) underwent transabdominal fetal echocardiography at a median ges...

BACKGROUND Fetal infection by human parvovirus B19 is a common cause of fetal anemia, nonimmune hydrops fetalis, and spontaneous abortion and can result in fetal death. Recent improvements in diagnosing parvovirus infections and the availability of intrauterine transfusion have reduced the overall rate of fetal loss after maternal exposure. METHODS We report two cases of maternal parvovirus i...

BACKGROUND Infection with parvovirus B19 may cause fetal losses including spontaneous abortion, intrauterine fetal death and non-immune hydrops fetalis. The aim of this study is to determine the frequency of parvovirus B19 in formalin fixed placental tissues in lost fetuses using real-time PCR method. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 100 formalin fixed placental tissues with unknown cau...

Accurate assessment of gestational age, fetal growth, and the detection of fetal and placental abnormalities are major benefits of sonography. Color Doppler can be used to assist in the identification of vascular architecture, detection of vascular pathology and visualization of blood flow changes associated with physiologic processes and disease states. The clinical applications of obstetrical...

INTRODUCTION In most cases of stillbirth, the cause is still unknown. AIM The impact of parvovirus B19/erythrovirus infection and chromosomal abnormalities in stillborns and neonatal deaths. MATERIAL AND METHODS 57 consecutive cases, 23 second-trimester abortions (from gestational weeks 16 to 22), 27 intrauterine fetal deaths (from gestational week 22 onwards) and 7 early neonatal deaths we...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate distinguishing the right/left side of the fetus, cardiac axis and position according to the standardized Cordes technique in 20 cases with cardiac malposition. METHODS We studied retrospectively 1536 cases whose fetal echocardiographic examinations were performed between 1999 and 2006 in prenatal cardiology unit. Among these, cardiac malposition...